Source: China – South China Morning PostOne afternoon last July, storm water crashed an underground retaining wall at Guangzhou Metro’s Shenzhou Road station, forcing the subway operator to shut Line 21 for seven hours, as a torrential downpour lashed southern China’s largest metropolis.
Guangzhou received 74.4 millimetres (3 inches) of rain within an hour that day, an unseasonably violent storm in a city that typically gets three times that precipitation over an entire month.
But what happened in Guangzhou paled in comparison with…Read More